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Re: Buying a Former Rental Class C. How many of us out there?
rice_classic wrote: Follow up on my 2012 27G from Cruise America. The warranty that comes with is only a power train warranty. It doesn't cover fluids, shocks or bushings. It definitely doesn't cover anything on the coach itself. Mine needed new shocks, a couple new bushings, and all the fluids replaced which added $2500 to my overall purchase price - I accepted this reality. However - after the purchase - it was discovered the fresh water tank has a small leak the result of which is mold in the storage area under the bed and under the floor of the shower. We tested everything when we purchased and were pretty thorough but we did not bring a square head screw driver with us and remove panels for a deep inspection. Heck, I had no idea the tank was under the bed until I discovered this issue. The leak also caused the door to get damaged as it soaked up the water on the bottom (wedging it in the frame) and ripped apart when opened. Fixing the tank, cleaning the mold and replacing the door is going to be expensive and the silence from Cruise America is DEAFENING. I'm now in the Buyer-Beware camp for this company - unless they magically start responding. Oh, ugh, so sorry to hear of the problems! 70 pages and you get to be the unlucky one to experience a pretty big issue...I wonder if a letter to the Good Sam Action Line would help light a fire under Cruise America to help you out?460Views0likes0CommentsRe: Buying a Former Rental Class C. How many of us out there?
Bea PA wrote: Welcome to the forum. We also bought a Chalet in 2015. No problems other than a failed cutoff valve on the propane tank. Only thing we didn't check on the inspection. I had never known of one to fail and probably would not have found it except I left the thermostat on and heard the furnace running.I suspect it was not working for a long time and no one knew it. Another Chalet in the club, yay!497Views0likes0CommentsRe: Buying a Former Rental Class C. How many of us out there?
IAMICHABOD wrote: blownstang01,also welcome to the Forum and the Former Rental Club! You are officially #86. There is another Winnebago Chalet owner here on this thread,KristinU,she has a entertaining Blog about her adventures and also some Mods and helpful hints that may be of interest to a fellow Chalet Owner. Good Luck and have fun in your New Rig. IAMICHABOD beat me to it! Welcome fellow Chalet owner! Ours is a 2008 and we're very happy with her. Like you, we didn't set out to buy a previous rental but we found this one in our search and I did some poking around online and found this thread, and we decided to take the plunge! That was right about 4 years ago...no regrets! 31C model for us, how about you? I'm sadly behind on blog posts...I need to do some catch-up!509Views0likes0CommentsAnyone replace an AC unit themselves?
We've just replaced the capacitor for the second time in a little over a year and hope that it will carry us along for a while longer, but thinking ahead if we need to replace our unit...has anyone replaced their unit themselves? We're not afraid of any of the mechanical or wiring, but thinking about how to get one of these heavy puppies up there and get the old one down has us stumped. I'm sure someone out there has a solution they figured out! Some sort of pulley system I would think, but attached to what?2.6KViews0likes13CommentsRe: Folding tables, port. grills, port. canopies-What do u take?
We, too, do much of our cooking outside on the grill. We have a Weber Q100 that we carry along. After many years of using the Weber folding stand that required advanced origami skills to set up, we picked up a tailgating table last fall from Sam's club. It has a fold-out metal section for your grill. So far we like it! Lots of food prep space and plenty of room to set things down, along with room for the single burner propane stove we have (but don't use as often as we thought we might...we mostly cook on the grill). I also like that it has a paper towel caddy and a garbage bag holder. For as big as it is, it is fairly compact when folded. http://www.samsclub.com/sams/lifetime-tailgate-table/prod3550079.ip We also have an EZ-up that we don't carry along all the time. We do carry it when we know that our camp site will be big and open and that we'll use it. But quite often our awning gives us plenty of coverage and we usually set the picnic table up perpendicular to the RV underneath the awning. That works well for us. Also to note, we have an extend-a-stay on our onboard propane tank, so we attach directly to that for our grill. Very convenient to not have to carry along little bottles or a spare big one.536Views0likes0CommentsRe: Shower head comparisons.
Keep those Oxygenics receipts, if you don't have your receipt they won't honor the warranty. We had one, loved it at the beginning, then it just started getting crummy and kind of spitting water out. Eventually it just gave up and blurbed water out. Since the whole thing is sealed pretty well, we never cracked it open to try to fix it. Our receipt was long gone, so Oxygenics wouldn't help us (or even give us tips on how to open it to try fixing ourselves). It finally bit the dust when we were on the road, so I picked up a low flow Waterpik brand one at Wally World for maybe $15. We've been running happily with the Waterpik ever since, and it has been a couple of years. DH and I both feel that it is every bit as good a flow as the Oxygenics had been...so our temporary fix has become the permanent solution. So, I'll say that I was an Oxygenics convert, until I wasn't ;)231Views0likes0CommentsRe: Dry camping
The dishes might have a lot to do with it too. If you do dishes like you would at home, you'll use a lot of water. I take my friends for a girls weekend once a year and the first time we went we ripped through freshwater in the first 24 hours! And that was with only two navy showers, the other two used the CG bathroom. After refilling the tank I saw my helpful friend doing the dishes - running the water like she would at home - yep, that'll do it!521Views0likes0CommentsRe: What do you do about dirty clothes?
We go to the laundromat or CG laundry if there is one, about mid week on a week long trip. DH and I are both runners, so for running gear we wash it by hand ASAP. Currently we use a salad spinner to both wash (sloshing fairly slowly) and to spin as much water out as possible before hanging dry. Tech gear is all synthetic so it dries pretty quickly. I've also pre-ordered this via the Indiegogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/drumi-the-foot-powered-washing-machine#/247Views0likes0Comments
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